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Their support is great and their services are damn good as well.

My work place have been on the previous storage box BX40 for 2TBs of off-site storage for 4 years. This announced update to the service, shows that BX21 service has just upgraded our offsite backup to 5TBs and no difference to the monthly price we already pay!


At least this one appears real, compared to the noteslate many moons ago!


Sadly no, I'm consistently reverting back to my 21ux, the jitter of slow stylus movement drives me nuts on the surface pro 4


Could you elaborate just a bit? I was about to recommend some Surface flavor to a designer friend, I don't know about the jitter you mention.


This video shows it perfectly, while this is an SP3, the SP4 is based on the same tech : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4iF00YHoA

On slow strokes, you can the tracking between key points looses accuracy as if the signal between points becomes weak.

I have tried everything I can to correct the issue like changing the stylus battery, 100 point calibration and driver updates. I'm pretty much convinced that N-trig just cannot be compared with Wacom (even the iPad Pro does a better job)

However, there are programs (ClipPaint and Mischief are my prime examples) have built-in mouse smoothing which greatly reduces the jitter but means the drawing action lags behind by a second or so.


It's a damn shame that they was unable to keep to their original A4 / Thin concepts. Looks as chunky as my current Toshiba M700 convertible laptop.

Still looking for a tablet like device with Wacom Digitizer and very high PPI. Hopefully the upcoming SP4 and Dell XPS 12 will tick all the boxes!


Pretty cool for an open source project. Reminders me very much of Filterforge (http://filterforge.com/) just missing the photoshop filter part.


Looks nice! Though ImagePlay does have a quite different public I guess. It was build mainly for education and prototyping.


Orchid Righteous 3D, the original voodoo add-on card! Remember playing Fatal Racing / Carmageddon with it too!


I remember seeing screenshots of GL Quake and QuakeII in PC Mags taken on machines with 3DFX cards, and wanting one badly. However, no way my parents could spend the money on that.

Hat tip for being the elite of the elite PC gamers back in the 90's!


Although a bit too big for my liking (still using a Galaxy S2) I wonder if that LCD will be in the next Oculus Rift iteration, having 1280x1440px per eye!


I have come to realize that 99.9% of these string comparisons examples are in Java. Does Sun/Oracle not trust developers to check `os.version` as well?


Because startsWith is a Java function, and most other Windows applications would be in C or C++, which has a few more variants is a bit harder to search for (especially with the lack of any public regex code search engines).


searchcode.com actually did have regex support for a while. Nobody used it. Probably down to how I implemented it more than anything else.

I am looking to add it back in sometime in the future once I roll out SPDX support and a few advanced filtering options (number of lines of code, multi languages etc...)


Back when it was searchco.de? I think I might have used it during that time... don't remember. Just know that it would make me extremely happy if you added it back, since I can't find such functionality anywhere on the Internet anymore.


That's the one.

The moment its live ill let you know via twitter.


Now it makes sense why they are calling it Windows 10! To avoid OS String detection edge cases against "Windows 95/98"


But, the marketing name doesn't have to match the version identifier string.

This issue would have been super-easy to work around if they wanted to call it Windows 9. Hell, put two spaces before 9. Make it "Windows Version 9" instead of "Windows 9". Whatever. MS does this all the time, shimming around people's broken & crappy app code. This looks like no sweat to me.


Why is it so necessary that Windows 9 be the next in the list? I mean, it's not a particularly standard list for user workstations: 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.


I was actually rather surprised when this version wasn't called "Windows One"


I can't seem to find the link again, but I think I read a Microsoft blog post somewhere saying that that name was already taken (by a Mr. Gates, circa 1985).


I heard that too but http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Windows_1.0 seriously? Who would mix that up? Also, given "One product family. One platform. One store" and the Xbox One they would have a cool One theme to build on.


I see what you are saying but "Android One" has already started their marketing so maybe that would seem awkward.


Yep, that too. I just seriously doubt this was the reason. Marketing and technology are only tenuously related, as we know :)


Because there is no valid reason to do it. Except that some consultants probably told them 10 sounds fancier.

When I see a product being marketed based on how it sounds intead of its real value, I consider that a fishy smell.


Plus they had to catch up with OSX.

I imagine future versions will be Windows 10 II, Windows 10 III, Windows 10 IV, Windows 10 V, etc.


"Coyote" "Jackal" "Fox" "Dingo" ... "Redondo Beach"


I prefer to imagine the world where windows version names mirror street fighter version names.

"Super Windows X Turbo: World Warriors Edition" sounds pretty sweet to me.


Even that is too consistent. Maybe Windows 10.1, Windows 10.1 Update, Windows 10.1 Update Extended, etc.

(I guess the downvoters haven't installed Windows 8.1 Update.)


At some point maybe they'll take a hint from their Xbox division and call it Windows One.


Windows 10 is supposedly going to be the "last major version" of Windows. [1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-christens-the-next-version-of...


Also DirectX 11 was originally supposed to be the last major DirectX version with only some minor updates planned, since Microsoft saw no additional parts of the graphics pipeline that could additionally accelerated by hardware (Source: some AMD talk a few years ago).

A few months ago DirectX 12 was announced (and it's quite probable that AMD's Mantle was the reason for this roadmap change).


Don't they say that every time?


So why not "Windows X"? Oh...


For unix interoperability and palandromic satisfaction, we can now offer you X Windows for Windows X.

Discounts for straight-edgers (xWWx for sXe!)


Not only OSX but OSX 10.10

That are a lot of 10s.


... except that in a lot of cases apps'll see "Windows 6.4"


right, well-written apps should ask for version number, which would be 6.x. The question is how to handle the wealth of poorly written apps out there?

Especially keeping in mind that poorly written != useless/bad, at least not always.


I wonder if anyone has thought of any indirect vectors? Imagine a Windows based virus that can scan a private network and use the shellshock exploit to infect never-before-seen unix devices with a HTTP service?


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